Solidarity, Author at Solidarity (Ireland)

AOC and Joe Biden Should Not Be In The Same Party

By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (US) After months of attacks by the Democratic establishment against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives, she is firing back. Since her shock election to the House of Representatives in 2018, beating Democratic Party institution Joe Crowley, AOC

Jan 21, 2020

North: New Decade, Same Approach

by Daniel Waldron Almost exactly three years after its collapse in the wake of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scandal, the Northern Ireland Assembly reconvened on Saturday 11th January and elected a new Executive. This followed an agreement between the DUP, Sinn

Jan 17, 2020

Ruth Coppinger

Mulhuddart Community Centre workers on poverty wages – By Ruth Coppinger TD

By Ruth Coppinger TD Leo Varadkar likes to talk about people who get up early in the morning, but in his own constituency are the working poor Leo never sees. Workers at Mulhuddart Community Centre, Dublin 15 (run by Fingal County Council)

Jan 16, 2020

Mick Barry TD on roots of housing crisis

By Mick Barry TD Just after Christmas, a corpse was found in the grounds of a derelict house in Cork. The head and the arms had been severed from the dead man’s body. The dead man was Frankie Dunne from the Northside

Jan 14, 2020

2020s- New decade of explosions and struggles awaits

By Cillian Gillespie The opening days of 2020 saw news reports dominated by the horrific images and footage of bushfires in Australia and the potential for a new war against Iran. This new year and decade we have entered promises a continuation

Jan 12, 2020

Government of landlords and super-rich must go

By Kevin McLoughlin “Leo channels his inner Bertie with ‘a lot done, more to do’ ploy.” That was a recent headline on an article from the Irish Independent and it sums up the recent antics of Leo Varadkar – making false claims

Jan 12, 2020

Strike wave grips France in opposition to Macron regime

By Finghin Kelly Strikes have been gripping France for over a month now in opposition to attempts by the Macron government to attack workers’ pension rights. Railway workers led the strikes, starting in early December, which then broadened out to bring in

Jan 11, 2020

Socialist Feminism

No delay, gender recognition for all!

By Ollie Bell, co-founder of Trans and Intersex Pride Dublin Last November, the report of the Gender Recognition Act review revealed that the government wasn’t going to implement non-binary recognition or gender recognition for under-16s. The only real change that the review

Jan 11, 2020

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Interview with Solidarity Councillor Sandra Fay: A tragic story of mental health crisis

A Thejournal.ie article titled “Mental health services failing vulnerable, warns sister of patient held in jail,” published on New Year’s Day, provided a graphic case study in the state’s abysmal failure to care for people suffering with addiction and mental illness. The

Jan 10, 2020

Solidarity with striking school secretaries

By Kate Relihan, INTO activist, Dublin 15 Today school secretaries represented by Fórsa will hold a national one-day strike in conjunction with rallies at the Dáil and the Department of Education later today. Following this one-day strike, FÓRSA school secretaries will escalate their work-to-rule